It's What You've Been

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It's what you've been

By Ryan Johnston

Some days, they are so meaningful

Like a waterfall, with it's misty reach

Living in the air, before it hits the ground

Someday, I hope I fall like that 

Some days, I think you said it best

When you said nothing much at all

Your smile so precise

Someday, I hope to love like that

With my back pressed flat to the ground

Memories and ghosts, and all these changes

Taste the bitterness, of better times

Feel the weight, pressing like gravity

My mind is torn, I am so worn down

Do you remember, when we poured like rain?

And we could wash away, 

The wrongs that we both made

Some days, are for letting go

Like a summer stream, slipping through the cracks

We lose a part of what we are, And all the things we've been

The jagged walls inside of us, crumble as the past spills out

And it drowns in the loneliness, in the sea of bones we left

The rest moves on, as we float away

In the current we contrast, and we become something else 

In the morning, when it's like the whole world

Has died and disappeared, am I still asleep?

I watch the moon fall away, into the silent air

And I know that I am, and I have been that

Without it's beauty, without it's elegance

You are in my blood, in every single beat

And I won't forget your face, 

And how you swam upstream for me

And I won't forget your name

And everything you did for me

And I hope you don't forget

The better things I've been

In the current we contrast, 

As we flow into the sea

Last night I made my way, out to you, 

You were there, among the crashing waves

Where the sea, and the sand meet

You told me to tie my tongue, and breathe

And fill my mind with this dream

You said the stars were going dim

They had faded out, like we did

Underneath the blanket sky

I watched a tear run down your cheek

And I knew that this was dying, like I've been